SEPARATION OF AZEOTROPIC MIXTURES BY BATCH DISTILLATION USING AN ENTRAINER

Batch Distillation is an efficient unit operation which allows the separation of a multicomponent mixture into its components in a single column. However, the separation of azeotropic mixtures via distillation is quite complex because at the azeotrope liquid and gas have the same composition and, therefore, the driving force for distillation disappears. A systematical presentation of batch distillation processes for separating binary azeotropic mixtures using an entrainer is given.